Depressing Realizations

[Duskwaith]

That ill die in some stupid war, over some stupid shit, in some stupid ass field before my younger brother is old enough to know how great his impact was on my life and how much i loved him and that i wont be around to protect him from this brutal world or lessen any of the burdens life throws at him;because no one was there for me when i had to go through that shit.

At the same time i think ive thrown away my chance at being happy with someone who truely loves me for who i am, also my dog is going to die leaving me without someone that has been with me through thick and thin despite only being what is considered a "stupid dog"

captcha: raise cain haha strange

 

[In Search of Username]

People will probably never form a fair, stable society, because we prefer constant bickering and are easily fooled by extreme ideas.

I tend to have that realisation every time I read enough comments on a news article.

 

[halfeclipse]

All we've got waiting for us is the slow, but enetiveable heat death of the universe as it approaches maximum entropy, and the space of time life can reasonably exist in the universe is around 100 Trillion years.

100 billion years from now. the local group will destabilize, merging into one big galaxy, a trillion years after that galaxies will be red shifted far enough we wont be able to see them anymore (even the gamma rays they emit will have a wavelength longer then the observable universe.) 100 trillion years from now, the Stelliferous era will end, and no more stars will form. 10-20 trillion years after that the last stars (low mass red dwarfs.) will exaust the last of their fuel, cooling to white dwarfs, leaving the universe populated black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. In the absence of an energy source, these remnants will cool further, grow faint and except for rare events the last light in the universe will go out.

Over the next quadrillion years, the remaining orbits of the planets will decay, or be flung from the system, and over the next 100 Quintillion years the same will happen to the stellar remnants within the galaxies.

10 Decillion years later baryonic matter (Which includes protons and neutrons.) will begin to decay into photons and leptons, and by 10 Duodecillion years (10^40) this will have finished, leaving the universe to the black holes for the next 10^100 years as they slowly evaporate to nothing, leaving the universe effectively empty as it reaches true heat death.

Fuck me. Way to cause a huge downer. O.O

You certainly did your homework.

Had basically that reaction first time I read up on it.


In case you're wondering, the percentage of time life can exist is (roughly) one septvigintillionth of a percent (10^-86), if we stop counting the universes life span when the black holes have all gone away.

WI'm taking a guess at the name of that number btw. It should be right, but I can't actually find a list of names that goes that small.

 

[aba1]

It worries me that we as a society won't be able to step up when we get to a breaking point between classes. As technology advances we outdate more and more jobs while our population keeps growing so eventually there will not be enough jobs to support the population by any stretch of imagination and when the time comes I have a feeling people won't be able to set aside there differences to take care of each other.

 

[Sight Unseen]

I have to go back to school tomorrow because the weekend is over

 

[Mr. GameBrain]

Some point during the day, my mind will remind me of how pointless my existance has been, how much of a screw-up I am, and how I haven't done anything significant in my life ever really.
(And sometime suggests that I should kill myself.(Though I would never, ever do that. So don't go firing the sirens!))

Yup. Self-esteem issues.

(Combine that with my Social anxiety, and you have a very lonely, solitary person (seriously I have been at uni for three years, and I only have ONE friend. My best friend from school, (and quite stupidly I sometimes feel that I am such a burden on him (on everyone really...))) Infact, I have less friends now than I have ever had. (Social anxiety does that to a person))

And from my lack of progress so far, it looks like it might take me a veeeeery long time to somewhat get over them.

 

[In Search of Username]

whatever humankind will ever archieve it will be destroyed once the universe starts to contract again.

plus you are insignificant.
and you will die.

That one day people will find a way to prolong life indefinitely and I will be long dead and buried.

yeah this too.

and i may die one day before the first replicator or holodeck is made.

Worse then that. All we've got waiting for us is the slow, but enetiveable heat death of the universe as it approaches maximum entropy, and the space of time life can reasonably exist in the universe is around 100 Trillion years.

100 billion years from now. the local group will destabilize, merging into one big galaxy, a trillion years after that galaxies will be red shifted far enough we wont be able to see them anymore (even the gamma rays they emit will have a wavelength longer then the observable universe.) 100 trillion years from now, the Stelliferous era will end, and no more stars will form. 10-20 trillion years after that the last stars (low mass red dwarfs.) will exaust the last of their fuel, cooling to white dwarfs, leaving the universe populated black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. In the absence of an energy source, these remnants will cool further, grow faint and except for rare events the last light in the universe will go out.

Over the next quadrillion years, the remaining orbits of the planets will decay, or be flung from the system, and over the next 100 Quintillion years the same will happen to the stellar remnants within the galaxies.

10 Decillion years later baryonic matter (Which includes protons and neutrons.) will begin to decay into photons and leptons, and by 10 Duodecillion years (10^40) this will have finished, leaving the universe to the black holes for the next 10^100 years as they slowly evaporate to nothing, leaving the universe effectively empty as it reaches true heat death.




Personally a Big Bang>Big Crunch>Big Bang cycle is damn cheery in comparison.


Of course the sun is getting hotter and more luminous, and will boil the earths oceans in .5 to 1.5 billion years. (so we don't need to worry about when it becomes a red giant and just incinerates the earth), so we don't need to worry.


Oh and time time may just run out in the next 3-5 billion years, assuming it hasn't already started to do so.

I don't get why these big 'life is meaningless, everything will end!' realisations bother people. Like... so what? Everything is temporary, you can still have fun with it while it lasts. Everything is meaningless, but you can still have fun. Never really understood why that kind of stuff worried people so much.

 

[Pebblig]

Whenever I realise that life is too short, it just suddenly hits you that time flys by...and before you know it you're in your 40's =/

 

[Marter]

I found out the other day that The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption fell back to a 3.5 on IMDb.

Ruined my day, man.

 

[SEXTON HALE]

Well I was standing on top of a montain yesterday with my head literally in the clouds.
I could not see shit for more than thirty feet it was class.
When I made it down to the usual altitude of about thirty feet below sea level I thought WOW!
Anything I do down here does'nt mean shit because Im not standing not standing on a mountain right now.
From now on I will conduct all my bussiness from the top on a mountain while gazing down on those unfortunate enough to not be on the top of a mountain.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

That sometime, all my files are going to be lost

 

[winginson]

There is one thing that bothers me though, and it might for the rest of my life; Hogs of War 2 may never be released. I shudder at the thought and I mean I actually shuddered.

I loved Hogs of War, it was just so good. That is such depressing thought.

That I lack the courage to make positive changes in my life, and that I won't do the only thing I think will make me happy because because I see it as risking too much for too little gain.

 

[joonsk]

That Monty Python no longer exists. And me being terrible in finding enough motivation to do anything interesting.

 

[Vkmies]

That Stanley Kubrick or Alfred Hitchcock are no longer names everyone just knows.
Same with Wagner, Mozart, Beethoven, The Beatles, The Doors, Jim Morrison and other.

 

[TerribleAssassin]

That the odds of me making anything out of my music is less than 1% and then I will have no job.

 

[Greni]

I just realized that there are people on the internet wallowing in self-loathing and guilt, feeling sorry for themselves and all coming generations for something that they can't affect in any way ever. They are just waiting for someone to slap them on the face telling them that they have the majority left of their lives and are spending it in the aforementioned state.

How fucking depressing.

 

[EeveeElectro]

My friend was bragging about her daughter who's a model, telling me she was on one of those shopping channels modelling something. She got £500 for ten minutes work.
That's actually more than I usually earn in a month.

It's depressing that there's models who earn more than people who actually work hard, purely because they're attractive.
The tons of respect models seem to get too. For what? Being pretty? I don't get it. They could be dumb as fuck, but end up earning more than people with actual intelligence.

Captcha: don't waste time.

Hmmm. Good point. *makes myself attractive and becomes a high paying model*

 

[Da Orky Man]

My friend linked me [a
href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future]this timeline[/a] the other day. I really don't give a shit about dying; it's going to happen, there's nothing we can do, I certainly don't want to, but it doesn't plague my mind like it seems to with the majority of the planet. But still, seeing that does rather but things into a somewhat depressing (but also humbling) sense of perspective.

Try watching this, really. It takes that sense of perspective, and turns it into something amazing.

 

[Tsun Tzu]

That, and I've accomplished nothing in my 24 years of life. I'm not anywhere near where I thought I'd be, I lack any sense of motivation to progress forward in what I perceive to be a dead-end existence, and my relationships with others have deteriorated to the point where I'd be better off alone. I've never held a job, though I'm trying to get one, and I've spent 4 years meandering through an associate's degree without any real sense of what the hell I want to or could bear doing with my life that would provide me with the necessary income to avoid starvation once my support system inevitably collapses.

Having said this, I'm still quite content to game/read/write/art/apply everywhere within 50 miles, maintaining a sense of blissful ignorance until said thoughts creep up.

More than a bit cliche', I realize this, but I suppose it's a common symptom of the human condition; judging by these posts at least.

Also, know what you're getting into with a potential partner. It's not sunshine and roses. Quite the opposite really. Be honest, follow your heart, all that nonsensethatisn'tnonsense.

 

[3quency]

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Oh yes, being sixteen. Christ that was four years ago now.
I remember that, everything spiralled into collapse and I became a big sad sack and died.

Oh wait. No it didn't.

Because I stopped goddamn moaning about how much my life sucked and started to work towards achieving positive goals.
You want to write? Fucking write! Not that hard! Yes you will suck at first, so get feedback and improve it so eventually it doesn't suck.

Being preoccupied with being all depressed and crap is a mug's game. You're young. You're in a country (presumably) where you can afford to live comfortably without the daily threat of death. You are alive.

The world is your goddamn oyster right now, go and make something out of it.



On a side note, whenever I feel all gloomy, I go watch this vid and feel better: